barred

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Etymology 1[edit]

Verb[edit]

barred

  1. simple past tense and past participle of bar
    He barred the door at evening.

Adjective[edit]

barred (comparative more barred, superlative most barred)

  1. Having bars; striped.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess[1]:
      Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall.  Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.
  2. Prevented, either by a physical barrier or by conditions.
    He is barred by term limits from running for a third term in office.
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Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

barred

  1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of barr

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Spanish[edit]

Verb[edit]

barred

  1. second-person plural imperative of barrer